WGU C234 Workforce Planning:
Recruitment and Selection – Already
Passed
What is the HR function that links workforce strategies with the strategic goals and objectives of
the organization and is about forecasting staffing needs, helping to ensure that the organization has
the right number of employees, with the right skills, at the right time? ✔✔Workplace Planning
What is the strategic alignment of an organization's human capital with its business direction?
✔✔Workforce Planning
What is a business planning strategy that identifies what an organization is about, what it expects
to do, and why it exists. ✔✔Long-range Business Strategy
What is a business planning strategy that formulates the specific organizational goals and
objectives that the organization expects to achieve within the next two to five years? ✔✔Middle-
range Business Planning
What is a business planning strategy involves developing short-term performance goals or annual
operating plans? ✔✔Short-range Business Planning
What is the purpose of workforce planning? ✔✔To identify future needs of the organization
What is the first stage of workforce planning? ✔✔Supply Analysis
What is second stage of workforce planning? ✔✔Demand Analysis
What is the third stage of workforce planning ✔✔Gap Analysis
, What is the four stage of workforce planning? ✔✔Solution Techniques
What describes the skills and knowledge of employees and is mainly used for making placement
and promotion decisions? ✔✔Skill Inventory
What is a planning system that requires an inventory of the people working for the organization?
✔✔Human Resource Information System (HRIS)
What is a method of long-term forecasting requires managers to know what business activity will
be performed by their groups in future years and how many people will be needed year by year to
achieve their business objectives. ✔✔Unit Demand
What is the process of asking experts to submit their individual opinions and then simply averaging
their estimates? ✔✔Pooling
What is a process which consists of having experts provide their best estimates of the future
through a series of questionnaires or interviews? The information is then collected by a third person
who summarizes it and then submits a report back to the experts. ✔✔Delphi Technique
What are the three solution techniques to solve HR gaps? ✔✔Building, Buying, Borrowing
Why would publicizing information related to a specific employee's promotion potential lead to
less valid opinions regarding promotion material? ✔✔Supervisors may be hesitant to make public,
negative evaluations that harm careers of their subordinates
What produces a job description and a job specification? ✔✔Job Analysis
How does workforce planning help training and development in an organization? ✔✔It forecasts
areas where obsolescence may occur
Recruitment and Selection – Already
Passed
What is the HR function that links workforce strategies with the strategic goals and objectives of
the organization and is about forecasting staffing needs, helping to ensure that the organization has
the right number of employees, with the right skills, at the right time? ✔✔Workplace Planning
What is the strategic alignment of an organization's human capital with its business direction?
✔✔Workforce Planning
What is a business planning strategy that identifies what an organization is about, what it expects
to do, and why it exists. ✔✔Long-range Business Strategy
What is a business planning strategy that formulates the specific organizational goals and
objectives that the organization expects to achieve within the next two to five years? ✔✔Middle-
range Business Planning
What is a business planning strategy involves developing short-term performance goals or annual
operating plans? ✔✔Short-range Business Planning
What is the purpose of workforce planning? ✔✔To identify future needs of the organization
What is the first stage of workforce planning? ✔✔Supply Analysis
What is second stage of workforce planning? ✔✔Demand Analysis
What is the third stage of workforce planning ✔✔Gap Analysis
, What is the four stage of workforce planning? ✔✔Solution Techniques
What describes the skills and knowledge of employees and is mainly used for making placement
and promotion decisions? ✔✔Skill Inventory
What is a planning system that requires an inventory of the people working for the organization?
✔✔Human Resource Information System (HRIS)
What is a method of long-term forecasting requires managers to know what business activity will
be performed by their groups in future years and how many people will be needed year by year to
achieve their business objectives. ✔✔Unit Demand
What is the process of asking experts to submit their individual opinions and then simply averaging
their estimates? ✔✔Pooling
What is a process which consists of having experts provide their best estimates of the future
through a series of questionnaires or interviews? The information is then collected by a third person
who summarizes it and then submits a report back to the experts. ✔✔Delphi Technique
What are the three solution techniques to solve HR gaps? ✔✔Building, Buying, Borrowing
Why would publicizing information related to a specific employee's promotion potential lead to
less valid opinions regarding promotion material? ✔✔Supervisors may be hesitant to make public,
negative evaluations that harm careers of their subordinates
What produces a job description and a job specification? ✔✔Job Analysis
How does workforce planning help training and development in an organization? ✔✔It forecasts
areas where obsolescence may occur
